Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Prior to being appointed as Governor General Canada CharlesStanleyMonck graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in law and became a Member of Parliament the House of Commons in England in 1852.
Lord Monck was raised the peerage of Ireland as 4thViscount and Baron Monck of Ballytrammon county Wexford April 20 1849 upon the death of his father in 1866 he was created a peer of United Kingdom as 4thViscountMonck and Baron of Ballytrammon county Wexford.
Lord Monck was Lord of the Treasury in the Palmerston government between 1855 and 1857.
Viscount Monck(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Prior to being appointed as Governor General of Canada, CharlesStanleyMonck graduated from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland with a degree in law and became a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons in England in 1852.
Lord Monck was raised to the peerage of Ireland as 4
ViscountMonck and Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, county Wexford, in the United Kingdom.
Viscount Monck(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He worked hard to build Confederation, and his efforts to unite and stabilize the young country were recognized with his appointment to the position of Canada's first Governor General in 1867.
In the course of his term, Lord Monck used his influence to diffuse the explosive potential not only of this crisis, but of many others to follow.
ViscountMonck and Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, county Wexford, on April 20, 1849, upon the death of his father, and in 1866, he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as 4
Monck believed in the supremacy of civil authority over the military of a "free" Parliament.
Peerage of Ireland as 4thViscountMonck and Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, county Wexford, on April.
Biography of General George Monck, Duke of Albermarle, 1608-70 Before he could be charged with assault, Monck joined the Duke of Buckingham's 1625 expedition to Cadiz and the Ile de Rhé.
4thViscountMonck of Ballytrammon (Ireland) [from 20 Apr 1849]; 4th Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, Co. Wexford (Ireland) [from 20 Apr 1849]; 1st Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, Co. Wexford (UK) [from 12 Jul 1866]; Sir CharlesStanleyMonck [from 1869, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George]
Rideau Hall(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It was built in 1838 by a Scottish architect, Thomas MacKay, and was occupied by his family until 1855.
When Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the new capital of Canada in 1866, Rideau Hall became the residence of the first governor general, CharlesStanleyMonck, 4thViscountMonck of BallytrammonLord Monck.
The house has been expanded numerous times since then, including the addition of a tennis court in 1872, as well as an ice skating rink and a tobogganing slide.